Name: NOBUGS 2026
Start: 2026-09-21T05:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-27T19:00:00+02:00
Location: EuXFEL Lighthouse

NOBUGS 2026

from Monday, September 21, 2026 (5:00 AM) to Sunday, September 27, 2026 (7:00 PM)

Monday, September 21, 2026

8:00 AM Registration: Satellite Meetings & Conference
Satellite Meetings & Conference
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Data Storage Management at Photon and Neutron Facilities: Experiences and Insights - 20p

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Hands-on tutorial on how to write FAIR workflows using the meta-workflow system Ewoks: Hands-on tutorial on how to write FAIR workflows using the meta-workflow system Ewoks - 20p
Hands-on tutorial on how to write FAIR workflows using the meta-workflow system Ewoks - 20p
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

GUI Workshop: GUI Workshop - 60p
GUI Workshop - 60p
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Interoperable Experiment Orchestration: Interoperable Experiment Orchestration - 30-50p
Interoperable Experiment Orchestration - 30-50p
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Mantid developer meeting: Mantid developer meeting - 20-30p
Mantid developer meeting - 20-30p
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM LEAPS SIG Exp. Control Meeting: SIG Meeting
SIG Meeting
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

DESY Tours: DESY Tours
DESY Tours
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

Petra III + Petra IV Presentation: Petra III Tour + Petra IV Presentation
Petra III Tour + Petra IV Presentation
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

6:00 PM Reception

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

8:00 AM Registration: Conference Registration
Conference Registration
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

8:45 AM From the Organizers: Welcome
Welcome
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Invited Speakers: Invited Talk 1
Invited Talk 1
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

9:45 AM Coffee Break

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM Advanced Data Acquisition: Advanced Data Acquisition
Advanced Data Acquisition
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Contributions

10:15 AM Scientific Computing Strategy Developments at the Upgraded Advanced Photon Source - Nicholas Schwarz (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:30 AM European XFEL Operation-Relevant Data Services - Luca Gelisio (European XFEL)

10:45 AM Streaming High-Throughput Detector Data at DESY Using ASAP::O - Yuelong Yu (DESY(FS-EC))

11:00 AM Live Reconstruction in Ultra-fast Dynamic Synchrotron CT - Qianwei Qu (Paul Scherrer Institute)

11:15 AM Event Formation Unit - a unified data acquisition pipeline at ESS - Tibor Bukovics (European Spallation Source (ESS))

11:30 AM Enabling Online Analysis-Based Data Reduction by Fast Data Transport using RDMA - Gero Flucke (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))
11:45 AM Lunch Break

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM

12:15 PM EuXFEL Tour of Experimental Hall and Data Operation Center

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM AI/ML Applications
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Tiled as a Data Broker for MultiModal Multifacility Data - Amanda Shackelford (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

1:30 PM BAIT: A Bluesky AI Tools framework for Beamline Operation - Eric Codrea (Argonne National Lab)

1:45 PM How Bluesky and Tiled Give Users a Path to AI - Dan Allan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2:00 PM Agentic AI for Large Dataset Exploration and Knowledge Discovery at Synchrotron Facilities - Alexander Hexemer (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

2:15 PM mlgid – a Comprehensive ML-Based Pipeline for Grazing-Incidence Diffraction Analysis: from Raw Data to Crystalline Structure - Dmitrii Lapkin (Uni Tübingen)
2:30 PM Workflow Engines
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM DAMNIT: Automating Experiment Overviews and Analysis at the European XFEL - Thomas Michelat (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

2:45 PM A Facility-Agnostic Framework for Launching Containerized AI Workflows Across Heterogeneous HPC Systems - Tim J. Dunn (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

3:00 PM EWOKS for FAIR data processing and experiment orchestration - Wout De Nolf (ESRF)

3:15 PM Tofu ez – a friendly graphical user interface for GPU-accelerated batch processing of microCT data acquired at synchrotron beamlines - Sergey Gasilov (Hereon (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon))
3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Beamline Control Systems
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Bluesky at SIRIUS: Scaling, Standardization and End-to-End User Experience Across Beamlines - Igor Torquato (Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))

4:15 PM Operando catalysis experiment automation at DESY P65 - Devin Burke (DESY)

4:30 PM Continuous Multi-Technique Scans in Sardana: From Roadmap to Production - Oriol Vallcorba Valls (ALBA Synchrotron)

4:45 PM ELETTRA 2.0 Beamline Controls: from the photon transport to the data collection and processing pipelines - Roberto Borghes (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)
5:00 PM Poster Flash Presentations: Flash Presentations for Poster Session I
Flash Presentations for Poster Session I
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM A report on an AI "Codecamp" for developing a graphical sequencer environment for instrument and beamline automation tasks - Steffen Hauf (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

5:03 PM Integer Programming-Based Proposal Scheduling with Workflow Integration at SPring-8 - Takahiro Matsumoto (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute)

5:06 PM Experiment Control and Data Management with BLISS: Achievements and Future Challenges - Jens Meyer (ESRF)

5:09 PM Silx: past, present and future. - Henri Payno (esrf)

5:12 PM dCache - sustainable software for scientific communites - Lennart Sack (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Marina Sahakyan (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Tigran Mkrtchyan (IT (IT Scientific Computing))

5:15 PM NICOS, a multi-protocol experiment control system - Hanno Perrey (European Spallation Source (ESS))

5:18 PM Darfix: How to improve existing code? - Maxence Ruyer

5:21 PM MIEZEPY: open-source software package for the MIEZE data reduction - Iryna Lypova (Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II, TUM))

5:24 PM Automation at the SLS 2.0 Macromolecular crystallography (MX) Beamlines - Jiaxin Duan (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:27 PM SOLARIS beamline interfaces - Liwia Zaborowska (National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS) Maciej Mleczko (National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS) Mateusz Floras (National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS)

5:30 PM Move Carefully and Fix Things: introducing the thorough, modular data corrections suite “MoDaCor”. - Brian Richard Pauw (Bundesanstalt Für Materialforschung Und -prüfung (BAM))

5:33 PM Research and Progress on Imaging Data Compression for HEPS - Shiyuan Fu

5:36 PM PtychoDiffusion: A Physics-Guided Diffusion Posterior Sampling Framework for High-Fidelity Ptychographic Reconstruction - Jie Zhang (Institutes of High Energy Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences)

5:39 PM From Compression to Control: Adaptive Latent Capacity Estimation for Scientific Data - Siu-Lun Yeung (SCD STFC)

5:42 PM A Plug-and-Play Pipeline for Custom Instance Segmentation Benchmarking - Bhumika Mistry

5:45 PM Numerically Consistent Azimuthal Integration for 2D pixel detectors for orientated data - Stuart Ansell (Max IV)

5:48 PM Generalising Bluesky Scans - The Generic Scan - Andreas Moll (ANSTO (Australian Synchrotron))

5:51 PM End-to-End Beamline Workflows with Prefect - Andreas Moll (ANSTO (Australian Synchrotron))

5:54 PM Agentic AI Publication Curation and LLM-Based Experiment Concept Evaluation - Madeline Miller (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:57 PM From Development to Operation: Lessons Learned from BEC at SLS 2.0 - Klaus Wakonig (Paul Scherrer Institute)

6:00 PM Performance matters: An optimization project for Taurus. - Oriol Vallcorba Valls (ALBA Synchrotron)
6:15 PM Poster Session & Reception
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Contributions

6:15 PM From Browser to Beamline: Deploying Taranta with OAuth2Proxy, Daiquiri, and Consul at DESY - Udai Singh (DESY)

6:30 PM Bluesksy Queueserver for Sardana: Running Sardana Macros via the Bluesky Queue Server - Udai Singh (DESY)

6:45 PM Improving Data FAIRness through AI - Max Novelli (European Spallation Source)

6:48 PM mmg_toolbox - a collaborative repository of python tools for magnetic materials experiments on x-ray beamlines - Dan Porter (Diamond Light Source)

7:00 PM Karabo 3: Architectural Enhancements and Device Migration - Dennis Göries (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL)) Wajid Ehsan (European XFEL)

7:00 PM A Modular Workflow Management System for Data Processing at Advanced Photon Sources - Hao-Kai Sun (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

7:00 PM The ESRF Software and Data ecosystem - Vicente Rey-Bakaikoa (ESRF)

7:00 PM PDF data reduction on 2D data: for fibre textured (thin film) samples - Jiatu Liu (DESY)

7:00 PM OCDM: A Web-Based Platform for On-Call and Shift Management at the European XFEL - Hugo Santos (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

7:00 PM LIMA2 at the ESRF: challenges, progress and future - Alejandro Homs Puron (ESRF)

7:00 PM Extending Mantid Indirect Data Reduction Workflows for the OSIRIS Silicon Analyser Upgrade - Silke Schomann (STFC)

7:00 PM Design of New Generation Data Management System at CSNS - Ming Tang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

7:00 PM DNS Reduction: software for data reduction at DNS - Oleksandr Koshchii (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

7:00 PM Data loading and delivery at the FLASH free electron laser: the fab package - Fabiano Lever (DESY)

7:00 PM APS Transition to the American Science Cloud for X-ray Data Analysis - Hannah Parraga (Argonne National Laboratory)

7:00 PM pydidas: A tool for X-ray diffraction data analysis - Malte Storm (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)

7:00 PM AI Copilot for FEL Experiments - Mahmoud Ajami (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

7:00 PM FPGA-Based Edge Computing for Real-Time Data Processing at the European XFEL - Viacheslav Kosterin (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

7:00 PM Single crystal diffraction data reduction with OpenHKL - Zamaan Raza (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

7:00 PM Karabo Interfaces to Other Control Systems - Gabriele Giovanetti (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

7:00 PM When Good Software Practices Meet Scientific Reality: Lessons from Data Reduction - Michael Walsh (Oak Ridge National Lab)

7:00 PM Toward Autonomous Beamline Operation: Early Integration of a Beamline Agent in BLISS at PETRA P25 - Canrong Qiu (FS-PETRA-S (FS-PET-S Fachgruppe P25))

7:00 PM Leveraging Filesystem Events to Enhance XFEL Data Management - Nasser Al-Qudami (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

7:00 PM KIWI: Karabo’s Interactive Web Interface - David Adebayo Olude (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

7:00 PM AI Agent System for Autonomous Data Analysis in Nuclear Resonant Scattering Experiments at Synchrotron Light Sources - Gholamhossein Haghighat (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

7:00 PM How do you coordinate Electron microscope hardware, enabling smarter experiments? - Utkarsh Pratiush (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

7:00 PM Schema-Driven Metadata Curation enabling DOI-Ready Workflows and beamtime data services leveraging on BlissData - Anjali Aggarwal (DESY)

7:00 PM blisswebui: simple monitoring UIs built on the bliss REST API and @esrf/daiquiri-lib - Stuart Fisher (ESRF)
Wednesday, September 23, 2026

8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Invited Speakers

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

9:45 AM Coffee Break

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM Poster Flash Presentations
10:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

10:15 AM Automating Alignment Workflows at European XFEL - Sarlota Birnsteinova (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

10:18 AM BACS 2.0: the modular Beamline Personnel Safety System at Elettra 2.0 - Michele Belletti (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

10:21 AM Control of Operando Experiments with Bluesky - William Smith (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

10:24 AM An Intelligent Two-Stage Lossless Compression Method for Synchrotron Image Sequences - Cheng Yu Liu

10:27 AM CATACT beamline @ KARA: ROCK-IT project outcome - Andrey Sapronov

10:30 AM Daisy-BCDI, an agent-based high-performance-computing software for BCDI in HEPS - LEI WANG (IHEP)

10:33 AM EasyScience: A Framework for Unified Neutron Scattering Data Analysis - Andrew Sazonov (European Spallation Source ERIC)

10:36 AM ESS Detector Data Acquisition Architecture - Morten Jagd Christensen (European Spallation Source)

10:39 AM EWOKS workflow for round-robin XAS study at BESSY II - Sonal Ramesh Patel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB))

10:42 AM Modernizing legacy monoliths - Reece Boston (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:45 AM Compression-aware FPGA implementation of azimuthal integration for high-throughput photon science - Zdenek Matej (Eur.UPEX)

10:48 AM SciLog at PSI – experiences, new features and outlook - Carlo Minotti (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:51 AM CrystalAI: Open Software for AI-Assisted Powder Diffraction Structure Solution - Shubhayu Das (RWTH Aachen)

10:54 AM A User-Centered Approach to Updating GUIs for DAPHNE4NFDI - Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

10:57 AM Building Sustainable and Collaborative Software Development at SIRIUS - Ana Clara de Souza Oliveira (Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))

11:00 AM Decentralized DAQ Pipeline for Serial Micro-CT - Chandan Sarkar (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

11:03 AM Application of Machine Learning to Diffuse Scattering Data Analysis - Raymond Osborn (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:06 AM AMBCAT: A Digital Infrastructure for High-Resolution Amber Fossil Research - Frank Schluenzen (DESY) Jörg Hammel (Hereon) Neele Rahmlow (DESY)

11:09 AM Enabling Multi-stage NeXus-compliant Metadata Standardization with Assonant - Paulo Baraldi Mausbach (CNPEM/LNLS)

11:12 AM Tailored Abstract Translator (TAT) - Yoganandan Pandiyan

11:15 AM PhotonZip: A Unified Compression Software for Light Source Data - Wenjing Huang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

11:18 AM Exploring Workflow Technologies for Beamline Control and Data Processing at SIRIUS - Ana Clara de Souza Oliveira (Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))
11:30 AM Poster Session & Luncheon
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Hybrid Cloud-based Instrument Control Framework for Next-Generation Neutron Experiments at MLF, J-PARC - Kentaro Moriyama (Research Center for Neutron Science, Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society)

12:00 PM Unified Data Access and Real-Time Visualization for Surface Scattering: Integrating the PHOTONIC Service with Community Analysis Tools - Ajit Seth (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU))

12:00 PM Architecture and Implementation of a Unified Scientific Computing Platform for Advanced Light Source Experiments - Qing Bao Hu (IHEP)

12:00 PM From Scientific Data Policy to Operational FAIR Data Management Workflows at European XFEL using myMdC - Luis Maia (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

12:00 PM When Things Go Wrong: Operational Diagnostics in the Control System at MAX IV - Dmitry Egorov (MAX IV)

12:00 PM DonkiOrchestra 2.0: a common software framework for data collection and experiment management at Elettra 2.0 - Roberto Borghes (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

12:00 PM MXCuBE-Web meets neutrons at the NMX Macromolecular Diffractometer of ESS - Laís Pessine do Carmo (European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS))

12:00 PM Nx5d and the Spice Concept: Declarative Parameter Management For Beamline Data Analysis - Florin Boariu

12:00 PM FAIR Data Workflow Automation: The DAPHNE4NFDI X-Ray Reflectivity Use Case - Nicolas Hayen (Kiel University / DAPHNE4NFDI)

12:00 PM Advancing FAIR Beamline Data with Direct DOI Dataset Access (D3A) in OSCARS - Paul Millar (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

12:00 PM CAmagick: Rapid Integration for Data Acquisiton and Processing - Florin Boariu

12:00 PM From Photons to Bytes – Overview of the SwissFEL Measurement Stack - Natalia Woznica

12:00 PM sophys-web: Web-Based Beamline Control Applications for the Bluesky Ecosystem - Igor Torquato (Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))

12:00 PM Better HDF5 Software: Improving Performance, Robustness, and Interoperability for Scientific Data - Elena Pourmal (Lifeboat, LLC, The HDF Group)

12:00 PM Deployment strategy for Beamline and Experiment Control (BEC) at SLS 2.0 - Ivan Usov

12:00 PM Hybrid desktop applications for DESY legacy control system GUI modernization using Tauri 2 - Emil Galikeev

12:00 PM Upstreaming Online Data Analysis - David Hammer (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

12:00 PM Advancements in the automated data analysis of high-throughput crystallographic fragment screening experiments - Rowan Walker-Gibbons (Diamond Light Source)

12:00 PM DAPHNE4NFDI: DAta from PHoton and Neutron Experiments - Zeynep Isil Isik Dursun (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

12:00 PM Data management infrastructure for European XFEL - Janusz Malka (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

12:00 PM reflectorch – a machine learning Python package for X-ray and neutron reflectometry analysis - Dmitrii Lapkin (Uni Tübingen)

12:00 PM Automated and reproducible tomography data processing at ESRF - Pierre-Olivier Autran (ESRF)

12:00 PM Continuous Integration and Continuos Deployment at DESY - Regina Hinzmann (DESY)

12:00 PM Monitoring and Data Quality Assessment Pipeline for Single-Particle Imaging Experiments at European XFEL - Egor Sobolev (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

12:00 PM OSCARS - A European Project Bridging the Open Science Gap - Paul Millar (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

12:00 PM Data Streaming at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source - Frederick Akeroyd (STFC ISIS Neutron and Muon Facility)

12:45 PM myLog as a Platform for Experimental and Operational Collaboration at European XFEL - Luis Maia (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))
12:00 PM EuXFEL Tour of Experimental Hall and Data Operation Center

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
1:00 PM Data Analysis
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Parallel Acceleration Algorithms and Platform Development for High-Throughput XPCS Data Analysis - JIANLI LIU

1:15 PM Live and post-beamtime Powder Diffraction data processing for DREAM at the European Spallation Source - Celine Durniak (European Spallation Source ERIC)

1:30 PM Beyond Histograms: Accelerating analysis of neutron scattering data in event mode - Phil Bentley (ESS)

1:45 PM Development and Early Beamline Deployment of the HEPS Scientific Data processing Framework - Yu Hu (IHEP, CAS)

2:00 PM HoToPy: a toolbox for X-ray holography & tomography in Python - Jens Lucht (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
2:15 PM Data Reduction
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Data reduction strategy at European XFEL - Philipp Schmidt (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

2:30 PM An Adaptive Serialization and Compression Optimization Framework Based on Data Feature Perception - Dian LIu (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2:45 PM Autoreduction, Live Reduction and Web Monitor – Current and Future - Marie Backman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
3:00 PM Data Visualization
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

3:00 PM Custom and efficient visualizations in the web for scientific data with H5Web - Loic Huder (ESRF)

3:15 PM Real-Time Data Sorting and Interaction at Ultrafast Pump-Probe Experiments - John Jasper Bekx (MAX IV Laboratory)
3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Experiments Automation
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Deployment of Karabo control system and DAQ infrastructure for standalone megahertz X-ray microscopy setup - Ivars Karpics (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

4:15 PM Intelligent Near Real-Time Analysis and Feedback for Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy - Diana Rueda Mantilla (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

4:30 PM BEC Actors: generic and flexible tooling for automation of Beamline Experiment Control - David Perl (Paul Scherrer Institute)

4:45 PM High-throughput Data Acquisition for Serial Micro-CT at the P23 Beamline at PETRA III - Clement Tavakoli (Laboratory for Applications of Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
5:00 PM Detector Software
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Fast data processing for X-ray crystallography - Thomas White (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

5:15 PM High rate detector acquistion and real-time processing at MAX IV - Jeremy Metz (Max IV, Lund University)
5:30 PM Open Source Software & Research Software Collaborations
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

5:30 PM Python Accelerator Middle Layer - Jean-Luc Pons (ESRF)

5:45 PM Tango-Controls Collaboration Status in 2026 - Reynald Bourtembourg (ESRF) Yury Matveev (DESY)
6:00 PM Bus Transfer Conference Dinner

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Conference Dinner

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, September 24, 2026

8:45 AM Registration

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

9:00 AM Invited Speakers

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

9:45 AM Invited Speakers: Cyber Security
Cyber Security
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

10:15 AM Coffee Break

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM Fair Data Management
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:45 AM Creating AI-Ready Datasets with FOXDEN - Werner Sun (Cornell University)

11:00 AM A revised scientific data policy for FAIR and sustainable data management - Fabio Dall'Antonia (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))

11:15 AM The Data Management and Data Service System for HEPS - Hao Hu (Institute of High Energy of Physics)

11:30 AM FAIR Data Management at SHINE: From Policy to Practice - Lei Lei (ShanghaiTech University)

11:45 AM OSCARS and PaNET: Bridging Experimental Techniques and FAIR Data - Melanie Nentwich (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

12:00 PM Open Research Data services with the PSI Data Catalog and SciCat - Spencer Bliven (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:15 PM SIRFlow: A policy-driven framework for transient data governance automation in scientific facilities - Allan Pinto (Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM))
12:30 PM Lunch Break

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

1:00 PM EuXFEL Tour of Experimental Hall and Data Operation Center

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM User interfaces and UX
1:45 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Designing for the User in the Age of AI: Integrating UX Practices into AI-Driven Software Development - Madelyn Polzin (Fermilab)

2:00 PM A Unified Web Interface for APS Experiment Data Management - Hannah Parraga (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:15 PM WEISS: a no-code, web-native system for EPICS operator interfaces - André Favoto

2:30 PM From PyQt to React: Evaluating Agentic AI in Beamline Application Development - Seij De Leon (Advanced Light Source, Berkeley Lab)

2:45 PM Web GUIs for Beamline Operations at the Australian Synchrotron - Andreas Moll (ANSTO (Australian Synchrotron))

3:00 PM Building Modular User Interfaces for Beamline Experiment Control with BEC Widgets - Jan Wyzula (Paul Scherrer Institute)

3:15 PM The User Service System for HEPS - WenShuai Wang (IHEP)
3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Research Software Engineering
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM On-Premises “Cloud” Infrastructure for Scientific Computing at the Australian Synchrotron - Andreas Moll (ANSTO (Australian Synchrotron))

4:30 PM Modernizing Mantid for Use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Peter Peterson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

4:45 PM Mantid ISIS updates - Sam Tygier (Science and Technology Facilities Council)
5:00 PM Metadata & Data Formats
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM Enhancing ESRF beamline metadata for structured, consistent, and FAIR data - Marjolaine Bodin (ESRF)

5:15 PM Data DOI minting service for DESY Photon Science - Regina Hinzmann (DESY)

5:30 PM Linking Data for Applications: Building a Graph-Based Data Fabric at the Advanced Light Source - Dylan McReynolds (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

5:45 PM SciTiff - Tiff file with minimal scientific metadata. - Sunyoung Yoo (European Spallation Source ERIC)

6:00 PM Building a Facility-Wide Operational Metadata Service: Lessons from myMdC at European XFEL - Luis Maia (Eur.XFEL (European XFEL))
6:15 PM From the Organizers

6:15 PM - 6:30 PM
Friday, September 25, 2026
9:00 AM Scientific Data Compression: Scientific Data Compression - 20p
Scientific Data Compression - 20p
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Scientific Data Compression: Recent Advances and Current Status - Fazhi Qi (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Towards Efficiency: Agile Development at Research Facilities: Towards Efficiency - I: Agile Development
Towards Efficiency - I: Agile Development
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

PyFAI: PyFAI - 10-20p
PyFAI - 10-20p
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

HTTomo - a high-throughput GPU-based Python package for large tomographic data processing: HTTomo - a high-throughput GPU-based Python package for large tomographic data processing - 10-15p
HTTomo - a high-throughput GPU-based Python package for large tomographic data processing - 10-15p
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
A developer's introduction to the Karabo SCADA Framework: A developer's introduction to the Karabo SCADA Framework
A developer's introduction to the Karabo SCADA Framework
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Karabo in a Nutshell
SciCat: SciCat
SciCat
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Security Practices for Instrument Control, Data Handling, and Service Access: Security Practices for Instrument Control, Data Handling, and Service Access
Security Practices for Instrument Control, Data Handling, and Service Access
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

10:00 AM NIAC: Open session 1
Open session 1
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM NIAC: Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM Bluesky Satellite Session: Bluesky Satellite Session
Bluesky Satellite Session
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Towards Efficiency: Agile Development at Research Facilities: Towards Efficiency - II: Agile Development
Towards Efficiency - II: Agile Development
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

NIAC: Open session 2
Open session 2
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

UX Workshop: UX Workshop - TBC
UX Workshop - TBC
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM

DESY Tours: DESY Tours
DESY Tours
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

3:30 PM NIAC: Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM NIAC: Closed session
Closed session
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Saturday, September 26, 2026

8:00 AM NIAC: NIAC
NIAC
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sunday, September 27, 2026

8:00 AM NIAC: NIAC
NIAC
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

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